Peace Camp for Little Ones

Ages 3 - 5

August 5-9, 12-16 & 19-23, 2024

Camp Hours: 9 am - 1 pm ♦ Extended day 1 pm - 3 pm
Registration Open

About PCLO

Your child will have an opportunity to explore what peace means through stories, cooperative games, arts and crafts, music, and service projects. Most of our time will be spent on the beautiful grounds of Gwynedd Meeting, using the fields, wooded trails, gardens, and play areas around the meetinghouse. Children bring their own lunch and healthy snacks are provided. This is a tree-nut/peanut-free environment. The 2024 email is coming soon.

The camp is held at the historic Gwynedd Friends (Quaker) Meeting. Gwynedd Friends is conveniently located at the intersection of Route 202 and Sumneytown Pike in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.

"PCLO is something we look forward to each summer! It is a wonderful opportunity for our children to wind down each summer with lots of peaceful, outdoor play and service-related projects with a focus on caring for each other and the community we share."
- Parent of PCLO camper

Camp tuition is $210 per week. Extended care from 1 pm-3 pm is offered each day for the first two weeks only. The fee for extended care is $20 per day or $80 for the whole week. Scholarship assistance is available.

Register HERE.

Gwynedd Friends PCLO will follow local health department and CDC guidelines as it pertains to COVID-19 at the time
of camp.

Questions?
Contact Marcia Wise
Email: wise.marcia@gmail.com

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Planning your Visit

New to Meeting for Worship?

If you've never attended a Meeting for Worship, we hope you will come worship with us -- give it a try.

Most Quaker meetings, at least in this part of the country, are so-called "unprogrammed" meetings. This means that our meetings for worship are not led by a minister, but are largely conducted in silence. Typically, a Clerk or other Member of the Meeting will close worship with a simple "Good morning friends" but otherwise the meeting may be completely silent.

ripples

Members and attenders are always invited to speak out of the silence with a message about their spiritual journey, although messages are not responded to directly .

A message has been described as a pebble tossed into a pond. The resulting ripples are received by others in the meeting and may contribute to their own spiritual journeys.

Continuing Revelation

In the Religious Society of Friends, continuing revelation comes from the Inner light or the light within. This light has traditionally been identified as the spirit of Christ or Christ within, although not all Friends associate the inner light with Christ. It is understood as the presence of God which provides illumination and guidance to the individual and through individuals to the group.

Because Friends believe that revelation is ongoing, we have no set creed or dogmas and we believe that new truth is revealed to us as we continue our spiritual journeys individually and with one another.

As early Friends listened to the inner light and endeavored to live accordingly, a common set of beliefs gradually emerged, which became known as Quaker testimonies. Although rooted in the immediate experience of the community of Friends, these testimonies are based on what Friends believe are verified in the Bible, especially the Gospels regarding the life and teachings of Jesus, and in our ongoing discernment of God’s desire for us to fulfill loving relationships with each other and the world.

PYM (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) Quakers consider the inner light to be above and beyond the Bible and other formalistic, written dogmas. We trust that the continuing revelation of the inner light speaks to us in our everyday lives.

Hubb Manager, 10/15/2019